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Article: Before His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore, America's First Civil Rights Martyr.
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
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Before His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore, America's First Civil Rights Martyr. By Ben Green. (New York: The Free Press, c. 1999. Pp. viii, 310. $25.00, ISBN 0-684-85453-8.)
From his home just a few miles from today's Kennedy Space Center, civil rights activist Harry T. Moore traveled around Florida to encourage African Americans to register to vote. Over six years Florida saw the addition of 100,000 black voters. On Moore's advice black registrants broke with the Republican tradition and inserted themselves into the dominant Democratic Party. Moore briefly became the most famous African American in Florida when he and his wife were murdered on ...